At 08:55 AM 4/6/99 -0400, you wrote:

>> >We may need to take this discussion to the devel list since I'm so
clueless.
>OK. One more bright idea before I give up. (In any case, I fear not too
>many people on this list are perl masters. If it were otherwise, I wouldn't
>have been stuck with writing reLyX. :)
>
>$nm = (eval { getlogin || getpwuid($<) }) || `whoami`;
>chomp($nm);

Guess what...it works! It is great we don't have to take it to the
configure script.


                                                                Dag,
                                                                Steven
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